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queerly

queerly adverb: in a queer (strange) manner.

Adverb

queerly (comparative more queerly, superlative most queerly)

  1. (dated) In a queer (strange) manner.
    • Little Sea grumbled in her sleep, while Desire, with wide-open, faunlike eyes, stared queerly at me.1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka, Eland, published 2019, page 118
  2. (uncommon) In a queer way (a way not conforming to conventional heterosexual norms), or in a way consistent with queer theory.
    • Queer Pedagogy
      Kevin C. Franck
      Queer pedagogy is less concerned with integrating gay and lesbian content [... and is rather] an attempt to destabilize pedagogical practice and to develop guidelines for teaching and learning queerly.2005, James Thomas Sears, Youth, Education, and Sexualities: K-Z, →ISBN, page 680

queerly meaning in Malayalam

queerly in Malayalam

വിചിത്രമായി

Synonyms of queerly

Forms of queerly

comparativemore queerly
superlativemost queerly

Origin of queerly

From queer + -ly.

Questions about queerly

What does queerly mean?
Queerly means in a queer (strange) manner.
What is queerly in Malayalam?
Queerly in Malayalam is വിചിത്രമായി. See Queerly meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is queerly?
Queerly is an adverb.

Words near queerly in the dictionary

  1. queerizing
  2. queerling
  3. queerlings
  4. queerlord
  5. queerlords
  6. queerly
  7. queermisia
  8. queermisic
  9. queermo
  10. queermos
  11. queerness

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Adapted from Wiktionary: queerly (page history and authors); queerly (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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